Speech-language pathology

Is communication or swallowing impacting your life or your child’s? 

At Welia Health, our Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) are dedicated healthcare professionals specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of speech, language, voice, fluency, and swallowing disorders across all age groups. Through comprehensive assessments and individualized treatment plans, we help patients improve critical areas of function, enhancing their overall quality of life.

We provide expert care for individuals affected by stroke, brain injury, head and neck cancer, developmental delay, cleft palate, and other conditions. As part of our team approach, we collaborate closely with your primary care provider, audiologist, dietitian, social worker, and other rehabilitation specialists to ensure comprehensive and coordinated care tailored to your needs.

Discover how our expert team can help you or your loved one thrive.

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Our Work with Adults

Recapturing Quality of Life

  • Helping Adults Overcome Swallowing Difficulties: Including video swallow studies for diagnosis, personalized exercises and techniques, proper positioning guidance, tailored diet plans for safe eating and drinking, and training in effective swallowing strategies. Learn more by reading our Welia Health Connections article, Understanding dysphagia: An invisible disorder.

  • Enhancing Communication Skills: Expert diagnosis and therapy for expressive (sharing thoughts/needs) and receptive (understanding others) language difficulties, including targeted exercises, training, and practical communication strategies. Understand the difference between receptive and expressive language with this helpful illustration from The Connecting Link website.

  • Supporting Cognitive Communication Abilities: Comprehensive assessment and therapy to address communication challenges stemming from difficulties with organization, planning, insight, judgment, memory, money management, and sequencing. These types of difficulties often result from concussion or mild cognitive impairment, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and right hemisphere dysfunction, stroke, and early stages of dementia. We offer exercises and strategies to restore abilities and/or develop compensatory skills. This graphic (link will open in a new window) outlines the six areas of cognitive function.

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  • Restoring Your Voice: Addressing concerns with vocal quality, pitch, and loudness resulting from various causes like structural changes, vocal tremor, vocal paralysis, vocal fatigue, or muscle tension. Our SLPs provide comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, and will coordinate with specialists as needed. Schedule a voice evaluation to start your journey to a healthier voice.

  • Improving Voice and Speech in Parkinson’s Disease with LSVT LOUD®: Our certified Speech-Language Pathologists offer LSVT LOUD, a proven program that enhances vocal loudness and clarity for individuals with Parkinson’s disease. This therapy strengthens the voice box and speech muscles through targeted exercises, focusing on speaking with intention to maximize intelligibility. Visit LSVT Global to learn more.

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Our Work with Kids

Helping Your Child Thrive

  • Helping Children with Speech Disorders: Expert diagnosis and therapy for articulation (producing sounds) and phonological (sound patterns) disorders, as well as motor speech disorders, including Childhood Apraxia of Speech and dysarthria. Learn how we can support your child’s speech development.

  • Building Strong Language Skills: Comprehensive assessment and treatment for receptive language (understanding language) and expressive language (using language) delays and disorders. Discover strategies to enhance your child’s language abilities.

  • Strengthening Social Communication Skills: Focused therapy for social communication difficulties, including those related to Autism Spectrum Disorder, addressing the social use of verbal and nonverbal communication. Find out how we can help your child connect with others.

  • Exploring Communication Solutions with AAC: Providing tailored support with Augmentative and Alternative Communication–from low-tech to high-tech solutions, for children who have difficulty communicating verbally. Explore communication options for your child.

  • Supporting Safe Eating and Swallowing in Children: Expert assessment and intervention for challenges with safe and/or effective eating due to issues with the structure, function, or coordination of swallowing. If you have concerns about your child’s feeding, contact us.